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President Obama's performance at the Q-and-A could determine if the Gult oil spill will plague him for months.
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2. Mr. President, You were a fierce critic of Bush’s handling to Katrina, as a senator you cited his “unconscionable ineptitude” in his response. Do you now feel your criticism of Bush was at all unfair? Do you have any more sympathy for his predicament during Katrina?

Even after Obama took office, the criticism of Bush over Katrina continued. A post in the “agenda” section of the White House website cited the “unconscionable ineptitude” remark and vowed to “keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.”

All mention of Bush has since been scrubbed from the site, and the White House has rejected any comparison — vigorously disputing the notion of “Obama’s Katrina.”

For candidate Obama, “Katrina” became like a one-word epithet that encapsulated all that he saw wrong with Bush — managerial incompetence, cronyism and indifference to the plight to people, including minorities. By the end of Bush’s term, many voters saw it the same way — and that’s why it’s such a dangerous term for Obama as well.

Now that Obama faces heat over a disaster in the Gulf, it’s a wonder if he sees things differently from inside the Oval Office.

3. Mr. President, the White House has insisted for weeks that the federal government is providing every resource needed to combat the spill. However, it’s clear that oil is nevertheless coming ashore in some areas. Is it time to start dispatching federal personnel, including the military, to do the manual cleanup and shore protection work?

The White House has been boasting in recent days that Obama has sent 1,000 federal employees to the Gulf, mostly managers and technical experts. But there are 2.8 million civilian employees in the federal government and 1.6 million men and women in uniform. And coordinating the frontline response has been left largely to BP.

At the same time, federal officials have said they lack the equipment and expertise to handle the deep sea efforts to get the well under control — a battle being fought a mile below the ocean’s surface. But it’s clear that, as with Katrina or other disasters, the military could quickly put more boots on the ground if Obama gave the order. While the armed forces are stretched by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some like Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) are urging the president to do just that.

Some are also pressing the federal government to give permission for dredging work to erect sand berms off the Louisiana coast. Local officials say doing that could protect some of the most sensitive areas from oil, but some experts doubt the plan will work.

Question #1: Why do you still continue to stonewall and refuse FULL disclosure of your LONG FORM birth certificate and FULL disclosure of your academic records as well as who financed you and full financial disclosure?

1) Can you please describe in detail your financial analysis of how spending more money in a recession on government projects will lead us out of the debt situation, when the CBO admits the debt will grow to enormous proportions in the next 5 years.

2) Can you please explain your opinion of union wage pressures on the cost of raw commodity goods, and their affect on general manufacturing jobs in America.

3) Can you please explain the current FDIC rules governing banks, and why they are allowing small failing banks to borrow money at the discount window to purchase US treasuries?

4) Can you explain your plan to clean up the oil spill, and why after a month you have not directed the military and coast guard to use all resources to capture the oil?

5) Can you please name the person in your administration who offered Mr. Sestak a White House job instead of running against Mr. Specter.

6) Can you explain the inaccurate reporting of job creation through the labor department, and would you be in support of separating government employment from private employment in those monthly figures? As a follow up would you also separate out the short term Census jobs from the monthly reporting?

7) Why do you feel it is necessary to sell luncheon fund raising meetings with donors at a cost of $95,000 an hour, while so many people in America are starving and desperate for work?

Mr. President you frequently refer back to the previous administration and its missteps as the root of some of your current challenges. In the days immediately following Katrina the former president and his administration came under severe criticism for not responding appropriately. Mr. President, how would you rate your response and that of your administration to the BP oil leak that began more than one month ago compared to the Bush administration's response to Katrina?

The Sestak question was a bit lame. The President needs to be asked, "Mr. Pres. Rep Sestak says that he was offered a job by your Administration if he would withdraw from the PA primary. Did you make that offer, or were you aware that such an offer had been made? When did you know that Sestak had declined the offer?"

It is clear that the WH made such an offer, or that Sestak is a serial liar. Sestak has repeated this allegation repeatedly in interviews and has never declined to give the same answer. He won't say who offered him the job, or which job it was, but he is adamant that the WH made the offer. This must be cleared up!

Another question that could be asked of Obama is, "Have the goals sought by MLK Jr. generally been met in America? In large measure, are there equal opportunities for citizens of all ethnicities in america today?"

It is instructive to read the following link which has an amusing take on this issue. It turns out that 65% of all civil rights claims filed today in the US are unrelated to race or ethnicity.

Why don't you guys ask him where he thinks Greece went wrong and why we shouldn't worry about the same results? Then pass some popcorn.

Great idea.

Q: Mr. President, your senior adviser David Axelrod said this week that it would be a “serious breach of the law” if a White House official offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job, like Secretary of the Navy, in order to get him out of the Senate primary in Pennsylvania. However, Axelrod also said that the White House had concluded the allegations were “unwarranted.”

This should be #1.

Then it might be interesting if someone were to ask him what his thoughts are on the proposal to build a freakin' mosque at ground zero! Then you could order a backup bucket of popcorn... cuz you'll need it as he tries to answer that one and play all end for the middle. It must really suck to be a squishy leftist with no cajolies.

Then it might be interesting if someone were to ask him what his thoughts are on the proposal to build a freakin' mosque at ground zero!

The questions should go like this.

How will you feel about building a mosque at Ground Zero if Osama Bin Laden releases a video after its construction, claiming Islam's victory over America? Do you not think that is a very high probability? Are you also aware that the Dome of the Rock was built on the Temple Mount for the exact same reason?

Every day more and more people are really learning that Obama iis the great Mesiah that his kool-aid drinkers think him to be. He has put this country on the road to destruction and orderede his whole team the Demoratic Socialist Party to get behind him and push, push, push even if they have to throw themselves under his bus to promote his one world agenda.

The Socialist Demoratic Party want to do away with the constatution, the bill of right and free elections and most people do not like the road he is taken America down. The only way to stop him is turn out in November and vote out all his SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST, LIBERIAL FRIENDS and RHINOS OUT OF OFFICE POSSIBLE and finish the the job in 2012.

Can you please tell everyone who was it that watered down every safety measure and environmental regulation during the past eight years? That's right Dick (*****) Chenney.

Can you tell every one what would have happened if you tried to tighten these regulations BEFORE BP blew that hole in the ground?

Please tell them that all republicans, from Sara Palin on down to the ignorant idiots that chant 'Drill Baby Drill" would have blown a gasket. They would be hollering that all that 'safety' crap kills jobs and its, frankly, 'unamerican'.

Can you please tell all these sanctimonious a** holes on this web site that the cost of drilling is staring them right in the face.

Question #2: President Obumbler, in answering the first question, you took over an hour, covered multiple topics unrelated to the question, and never answered the question. It appears you've prepared what you want to say today regardless of the press's presence. So, could you focus like a laser beam and give direct answers to direct questions, providing the American public with an actual press conference since you only hold them every 9 or 10 months?

Question #3: sorry, there will be no time for a question #3 following the 45 minute tribute to all things Obumbler following question #2.